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“Scholars of diplomacy have identified diplomatic practices across the human experience, spanning the globe and going back before recorded history. Even so, the actual term diplomacy did not enter into usage until the last decade of the eighteenth century.”

- Halvard Leira, “A Conceptual History of Diplomacy,” The SAGE Handbook of Diplomacy, 2016

The History of Diplomacy concentration provides a foundation for those who are interested in pursuing work in education or advanced studies. Students will have the opportunity to place the discipline of history into conversation with the study and practice of diplomacy.

Students in the History of Diplomacy concentration will be required to take six courses from the following list.

Course Title Quarter Hours
Choose six from the following, at least two must be 300-level:24
BLACK FREEDOM MOVEMENTS
INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
LEADERSHIP AND DIPLOMACY
SPECIAL TOPICS
EAST ASIA , c.1800-PRESENT
WORLD REFUGEE CRISIS
ORIGINS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR, 1871-1917
ORIGINS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR, 1914 - 1941
ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR, 1917 - 1953
THE AGE OF THE COLD WAR: 1945-1991
THE HISTORY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR
AXIS AND ALLIES: THE SECOND WORLD WAR
FASCISM AND COUNTER REVOLUTION
INTELLIGENCE IN 20TH CENTURY
WAR AND PEACE IN THE MODERN AGE
EUROPE FROM CONFLICT TO CONSENSUS
REVOLUTION AND NATIONALISM IN IRELAND, 1798 - 1923
THE GREAT WAR, 1914 - 1918
THE HOLOCAUST
US-MEXICAN BORDERLANDS